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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1916, Page 3

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•Received This iL>«y 9.10 a.m. GERMANS RiEINEW OFMQNSIVE Paris, June 83. The Germans have renewed their big offensive, and are uninteaTuprtedily bombarding all our positional on bath banks of the Meuse. i'lie twenty-tou'r hours' bombardment on the right bank is interpreted to mean that they are striving to capture forts Souviile md Ta valines to aparo rednforcemente for! the other fronts.' A STEAMER jIINED. Petrograd, June 23. Tlie steamer Mercy, with 800 passengers, was mined near Odessa and sank in fire minutes. The majority of those on board were eared.

THE WO SIDES Oi 1 iHE QUESTION.

Germauophile uewspapers vehemently dieclaxe that the enroroeu elections are intended to secure a Venezeiiat majority and plunge the nation into wax. The Venezelist organs reply that the Entente was compelled to use ,-iolence to save Greece irom government by tyrants and to restore popular liberties. THE TAKING Ob' fc>\ IDNJK' .Juiii .*>. Hit; Daily Telegrapli s co'.t-spondent senus details ui Hk capture oi Svidoiiki. jl-uo Kiua'suis 14 end the bombardment on tlie iStoklioa ~i.e earl* on tho morning ox the ji/.. '1 Liu Germane anticipated the lnlantry attack by asaulting in dense columns. The Russians fell back lor two miles, biinging the enemy una. - a t'aijki&g lire from the Russian machii;') gins, and the ground soon was stri wn with dead. The survivors pre&sed onward, buc ten minutes' bayonc, v<ojjj v«i-. sufficient to rout ulio uerniau leuiuaa t. u.ji.swi:iTi.i followed up on -lieu heels, and cxo&sed tlie istoiiiiod. boioio the ueimaua haa time i-o detiDioy tno I bridges and armoureci motora. Xlns I completed the lou.i. ilie ituusuins then prepared to auvance on iSaloiniia. Tiiey were iace<Ji by extreme ailueuj - ties in the niareny ground. chest deep through the mud, uuutsr a lieaviy artillery and niacniue gun nro, carrying theu- own macntne guus., rifleib and ammunition on their heads and shoulders (every woundeui or unwary Russian was swallowed uy the pitiless bog) the Russians ieaciieu firm ground, and after their tlonndoring through the nui'c charged tiio village with the bayonet. Two uerman Landiwelir regiments, holding the village, fought ibravely, barricading the cottages and mounting machineguns on the roofs and at the windows, i Every building had to be stormed, and the garrison piactioally wipedi out. 'l'he Germans recaptured the village temporarily, .but the liuisiam rertormed it and: took prisoner several hundiede. The (jeruiane used new shells, with a double explosion, nicknamed "Orphans" by the Russi\*s, owing to their wailing sound in tho air. The Russians counted five Hundred Germans dead at one Stokhod feuidge. All the woods near Svidniki were thickly strewn witn dead, iind greait numbers were swallowed up in swamps.